Electrically-heated puef-iron



o. BERTIULEIT.

ELECTRICALLY HEATED PUFF iRON. APPLICATION man luusz'z, 1912.

Eluwzntoz Patented May 20, 1919.

DAVID BERTULEIT, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

ELECTBICALLY-HEATED PUFF-IRON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

Application filed J'une 22, 1918. Serial No. 241,398.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID" BERTULEIT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrically- Heated Puff-Irons, ,of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

.This invention relates to devices for ironing garments, and particularly to what are known as puff irons used in tailoring, laundry and dyeing establishments for pressing ruffles, silk waists,etc.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved puff iron of a very convenient form which is electrically heated, thereby rendering the iron much easier to manipulate with much less danger of burning the fabric than where the iron is heated by steam or gas. v

A furtherobject is to provide an iron of this character which has a head approximately ovoidal, the head" being mounted upon a standard and the head being formed of two sections detachable from each other and having disposed between the sections a heating element.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a pull iron constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the head with the top section removed.

Referring to these figures, 1O designates the head of the puff iron which is approximately ovoidal in form and may be of any suitable material, preferably metal, and which is formed in two sections connected by screws 11 passing through the lower section into the upper section, these screws having screw-threaded engagement with the upper section. The head has an interiorly screw-threaded bore 12 through the lower section for engagement by a screw-threaded standard 13 preferably tubular in turn engaged with a base 13% Disposed between the upper and lower sections of the head 10, is the electrically energized heating element 14, which, as illustrated in the drawing, is held between the opposing faces of two longitudinally extending strips 15 of insulating and refractory material, these strips being laid face to face and being clamped between the two sections of the head 10, the screws 11 passing through these strips as shown. Conductors 16 extend up through the standard 13 and are electrically connected to the heating element 14, and these conductors are combined in a cord which-passes out of the standard 13 and connects to the usual plug 17.

It will be seen that exteriorly the head .10

is smooth and is of such shape as to make it particularly convenient for all kinds of ironing of the character stated by reason of the fact that it is egg shaped so that surfaces of various degrees of curvature are presented to the work. The heat may be readily controlled by any of the usual electrical controlling means such as a rheostat and thus there is no danger of scorching the fabric and inasmuch as theicurrent need not be turned on at all until the iron has been inserted 'within the garment or disposed in properposition, there is no danger of the hands of the operator being burned.

What I claim is 1. A pufl' iron, comprising a head formed in two compleniental sections, strips of refractory and insulating material applied to the opposing faces of said sections and extending longitudinally thereof and in abutting relation to each other and clamped between said sections, an electrical heatlng element interposed between said strips and held thereby, a hollow standard extending through one of said sections, a base upon which said standard is mounted, and conducting wires passing through said standard and connected to said heating element.

I 2. In an electrically heated puff iron, a head composed of two complemental sections, longitudinal strips of insulating and refractory material interposed between the adjacent faces of said sections and in contact therewith and with each other, a heating element interposed and clamped between said strips, means ,for connecting said sections together with the strips and heating element clamped between them, and means for conducting an electrical current into said head to said heating element.

In testimonywhereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

I DAVID BERTULEIT. Witnesses:

PAUL KIMMEL, PAUL Wanrr. 

